The Opening Of The Sealed Book

And not as much chance to tutor as to instruct and bring about what I'd like to bring about. I know this morning that Satan greatly hindered. One of the reasons is that he knew that there was quite a number of people that was here that had been staying away from church for quite a long while and he knew that they were here and that conviction was going to seize their heart and he didn't want anything, uniformly, to move, as to the moving of the Spirit. We started off with a real jubilant, joyful praising of the Lord. And he did everything that he could to interfere. And sometimes on Sunday morning I have a little problem as to hacking a little bit. I try to stay away from it, but getting out in the cold, which I know better than to do, I do it. And being up at night it adds to it. You know, if you get a little bit congested and you come up here to minister that isn't bad. You can stay right on anyway and it doesn't bother you, but the thing is when you get up here and you start moving around and perspiring a little bit, then the congestion begins to loosen up just enough to cause you to have problems and then you start hacking to clear your system. And that's what makes it so bad. You know, if it would stay one way or another it wouldn't be too bad, but it doesn't have any effect until you start moving around and then getting a little perspiration and then of course, that's when you run into problems. But we're glad to have you here tonight. I don't know just who all is here. There was quite a number of people that was here this morning that I did not acknowledge. I would have had I known, but sometimes I don't know until it's a little bit too late to acknowledge them. And if I could know then I would be glad to acknowledge them. They told me about somebody that's been here with us a number of times. I believe they said that this young man, maybe he comes to church with Brother Tommy Clark's daughter. And they are planning to get married, or something, and he's been here with us a number of times. I don't know just where they set or where they are at, but anyway the lights are a little blurry anyway. We're glad to have you here. If you're here tonight we're certainly glad to have you. And if they are not here tonight you tell them that we really appreciate having them here. Whoever it is, whoever you are, we're glad to have you here. Still see Johnny's brother-in-law back here, I guess it is, that's still with us. He's been with us a number of times now. Let me tell you something, folks. If you are not in with Jesus you've missed it all. If you are not a Christian you have lived a wasted life until this time and if you don't become a Christian you have will live the rest of your life a wasted life. I know, somebody says, You know, I eat, drink, I frolic. I curse, I snort, I dope up. I do all these things and it's joy to me. Well, it might be joy to you now, but it'll be hell to you later, because you are unwise. You are a fool and you are headed down a trail right into the lake of fire and all of your foolishness, as to give your body, which is the temple of the living God to the devil that he might use that body, in doing that you are nothing less than a fool. And if you've never heard about Jesus, or you've never had a chance to repent, or if you've heard and it's never penetrated, as to get a hold of you to where you understand, then I understand, because the Lord's mercy is with you until you can know. It's dangerous, but until you can know His mercy is with you to try to help you to reach out for Christ. Even though you can still get killed, you can still be lost, but He'll do everything He can to get to you. But if you do know and you have heard then it's required of you and the soul that knoweth to do good and will not do it, to that soul it is a sin and the soul that sinneth shall surely die. So then, don't be foolish, don't be foolish. Whatever you do don't be foolish. We're glad to have you here if you're here for the first time, or if you come regular we're still glad to have you here. We appreciate you. We love you. We'll do anything we can to help you. But be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. I say this so often. A lot of people say, Well, Brother Pike, I still convicted that God is a good God, that even if I do wrong and I come back He'll forgive me. Well, that's great. I hope that He will. If He will that's fine. But I'm still saying that if you go out there and you lose your eyes and you come back blind, though He might forgive you and receive you, you are still a blind man, or still a blind woman. And if you could lose your natural eyes in that way that means that there is a lot of other things that you can lose in going out there and coming back. You may have scars and you may have problems, you may suffer a loss of life, loss of a loved one, and whatever, and coming back to serve God but you still lost it, you are still reaping it. You may lose your health, you're still reaping it. And then, somebody says, Well, I believe I can get my eyes back, or I believe that I can get my health back, or whatever. Well, that's fine. No problem. The only thing is it takes faith and it takes a miracle to get it back once it's lost. It don't just return back to you. So, you need to think it all over and while you do have the blessings of God, then go on with the Lord. Don't do the things as to coming to the knowledge of the Lord, and just playing around until you just get to be a reprobate, or until God rejects you, or to get so much of the understanding of God that it's just one chastisement right after another chastisement. And that when you do come to the Lord that you can't bring any fruit to perfection, because you've done so many things that are contrary to God that you are reaping the whole time that you are trying to serve the Lord. And it's just like a person tonight, if a person got saved tonight and they had leukemia when they got saved they'd still have leukemia. You know, it would have nothing to do with their physical being because the body is yet unredeemed and the devil can make havoc out of the body. And you can have all kind of pains and all kind of miseries, all kind of demon spirits working with you or working on you, you know. So then, it takes a miracle from God, as to faith, or somebody to pray the prayer of faith to be able to bring you your healing. Good people die with diseases. Some of the finest in the world have died with diseases. Someone would say, Well, Brother Pike I thought you preached that sickness comes from sin. I do. I preach that sickness comes from sin. I preach that every sickness comes from sin and there was no sickness until sin came. And all death comes from sin. And if anybody is sick it's because of sin. Somebody would say, Well, I don't believe that everybody sins and gets sick. I didn't say that. I said, It's because of sin. Whereas somebody said, when Jesus healed this particular person and they inquired as to say, And who has sinned, he or his parents, and He said, Neither. This is for the glory of God. I tell you again that He did not say that sickness did not come from sin. He said, Neither they nor their parents, in that the Bible said God visits the iniquity of the fathers down upon the children down until the third and fourth generation. Whereas, in your day He doesn't visit it down upon your head, because Calvary changed it, and every person must answer for their own sins. But it is a true fact that things are hereditary and it does come down through the vine, as to the family. And something has to be done. But on the other hand, when you become a Christian that does not do away with it and even though it may not be with your parents, it certainly is of your forefathers. Because sin came down from Adam and in Adam all die. And it came down from Eve and Eve is the mother of all living, unless you are born again. That is of the church, that is to say, of the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the mother of us all. And you don't even have any right as to being free from sin, or free from sickness, or free from death, or free from demon possession, unless you are born again. You don't have any right to it. It's not even given to you as a right. So, I say this to you that God wants you to be whole and healthy. I am the Lord God that healeth thee. I heal all of your diseases. I am the God that forgiveth all of thine iniquities. So then, He wants you to be healthy and well. And He wants you to love a full life span, to come to the end of your life as in a full shock. For He said, I will fulfill the number of your years, but you can shorten your days by your disobedience. Many people have already shortened their days by their disobedience. It doesn't matter if they come to God. They come to God still they've shorten their days by their disobedience because they came to an understanding and kept tarrying and would not come on in and face the situation. And now if they come in they are going to have a short lifeline. And some of you that have already come in, in that you knew to do certain things and to go on with the Lord, you were very careless and unconcerned and very weak toward your efforts toward God when you should have been very diligent and been strong, and you've shortened your days by your disobedience. And as to the wicked, the Bible said, the wicked shall not live their days half out. But if you would see long life, many years, good health, refrain your tongue from speaking evil and guile. And if you want it to be well with you and your children all the days of your life, then follow Me and do the things that I tell you and everything will be all right. That reminds me again, it comes to my mind again that we should remember Buddy Dee, that his son got shot. There was some kind of domestic problem and I think maybe his wife was putting in for a divorce, as to what little I got from it, and maybe the boy, I don't know whether he was dissatisfied, or what happen to him but he went over to his wife's dad and whether he was arrogant toward him, or the dad just didn't like the idea of him being there, or whatever, he shot him. And he was in bad shape. Now, as I said, I wanted so much to get over some things to you this morning, because I felt the urgency of it. I felt the anointing of it. I felt the diligence toward you, and I don't feel it tonight, which I felt like that we would not feel it tonight, because you know, on Sunday night it seems like we all eat real good and we get our minds in the natural so much that when we come to church, though we are a good people, a fine people, a reverent people, whatever, we just don't have any hunger. We fill up on the things of the world. I said this to you a number of times. I remember a great man by the name of William Branham that made the statement that it was cruel to God for you to fill up on the things of the world when God gave an appetite for spiritual things and you misuse it and you go and you kill it out by filling up on the things of the world. And so it is. That's the way it goes. Now this morning I saw a little Sister come down and give her heart to God this morning. It was real troubling to me, because I knew that a number of people should come down, and as it was the other night when you wanted to leave so soon. I picked up your spirits and they were gone. That self-made thing of forty-five minutes, or whatever it is, and we think it's enough and we're tired and want to go home. See? And it wasn't until I held you and wouldn't let you go that these people came to the alter. And it was pretty much the same this morning. Numbers of people were under conviction and would have come to the alter this morning, but we are so prone to go out to do our own thing, you know. And of course I read quite a bit of Scripture, and like I said to my wife, I said, Well, supposing I should just say, Well, Sister Betty, I just read too much Scripture this morning before I preached. I said, Now, isn't that something. We read two or three passages of Scripture and that's too much to read in the house of God. Whereas, I would have thought that if I had read the whole book it wouldn't have been too much in the house of God, if I had read a couple of books. And how then can I say I read too much Scripture when some of you don't read the Bible at all. And the only time you ever get any Scripture is when the preacher reads it to you. So then, trying to give you a little foundation for your understanding as to where we could teach you, or tutor you, then I brought out some Scripture this morning. But by the time I did it scattered your mind so, because of the lack of concentrated efforts in listening until we never got anything over to you. Well, anyway so much for that. That's the way it is. We might do this, we might drop back and say just a few little things tonight. It might brighten your thoughts and help you since I did read some Scripture. I had said that --Let me say this before I comment. The very thing that I was trying to teach this morning and the very thing that I was trying to enlighten you with, after service I went to a certain individual and he said, You know, said, my wife said she sure would like to understand as to whether the translation is at the first of the week, or the later part of the week. And said, I'm not going to say I'm confused, but I sure would like to understand this thing. See? That was the thing that I purposed in my heart that I would bring out this morning to get a little bit on tape and on video and into your mind, as to take about three major things concerning the book of Revelation since the war is coming like it is, so that you would not be confused when you testified, or somebody testified to you, or you had a discussion of the things of God. I wanted you to understand. The Bible said, Let everyone that reads understand. Let everyone that readeth understand. So, I thought that perhaps I might share this with you that you might understand. Well, somebody said, I already understand. Well, that's fine. You know, if you already know all these things there's no point in listening to me. No need to trouble yourself, you need to go tell somebody else, or you need to be doing something else. You don't need to be here with Brother Pike tonight. I say that for the benefit of somebody that I picked up their spirit. You know, you need to go where you are going and be on your way, otherwise — That's the only one I picked up in the whole service tonight. And I know the reason for that. But nevertheless, I want to comment just a little bit in that I intended to try to share some things with you and I wasn't able to share those things with you. I'd like to comment just a little bit. From the beginning of the chapter, first chapter of the book of Revelation, it says,

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [is] at hand.

Now, we said that so many times that when the revelation of Jesus Christ comes that means that it is then the coming of the Lord and the revelation foreruns, as to the Gentile church and then after that the actuality of the coming of the body is Jesus, Himself, as the lamb, as to the body that was crucified coming on Mt. Zion in the fourteenth chapter of the book of Revelation. I wish that you could have heard today, and I wish that there was a way that we could bring it. We can't bring these things except that the Lord do it. There's no way I can bring them though I understand them and know them. And I wish that you could have heard as we explained this, as to the coming of the Lord and what it would be and how it had to do with the seals and how it had to do with the book and how it had to do with Calvary and how it had to do with so many wonderful things, because great is the mystery of godliness. And Paul said I am made a stewart of the mysteries. All right. You say, Well, I'm a stewart of the mysteries too. Well, that great. That's great. I'm glad that you are. You should be out somewhere telling someone about it. All right, now. So then, here we are as to these things and the first chapter of this book tells us that while John is exiled to this little island off of the Asian coast, as to Asia Minor, it is here at this little island, which I say that we have found in looking for it on the map; it's there. That he was exiled to this little ole rocky island and it was for the benefit of God that he might be undisturbed during the time that he wrote the book of Revelation as Moses was for eighty days on the mountain when he wrote that as to pertaining to the Old Testament. And here John is doing this. A lot of times God will kind of exile a person to get them off by themselves to where He can talk to them to get this thing like it needs to be. All right. So for your edification he has a book here to write it, put it in a book, and send it to the churches. And so it is, it's written, it's been put in a book, it's been sent to the churches and the Bible said as unto the churches, He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. And John, he is here in the Spirit on the Lord's day. Now that's where the problem comes in there is why is it we're not in the Spirit. We say Sunday is the Lord's day. If Sunday is the Lord's day why then are we not in the Spirit? If we live in the Spirit why then not walk in the Spirit, or be in the Spirit? See, if we walk in the Spirit we'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh, or the desire of the eyes, or the lust of the eyes. So, then John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and in that he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day he heard this voice behind him. And when John turned he saw somebody standing in the midst of seven golden candlesticks. And in this he was astounded. And we have spoke of that giving a little bit of understanding about it, not to night. We won't do that. But anyway, it went on here as to get over to the church ages. There was something said about the mysteries of the seven stars in His right hand, and it said something about the sharp sword, twoedged sword, the countenance, as to the sun shining within His strength and His garment to His feet. And that's better than a lot of people do today. Even the ladies won't wear them to their feet, but anyway, He said, I'm your example. You need to follow in My steps and He wore them down to His feet. Even some of our ladies at Bethlehem can't bear them down to their feet. They start chopping them off at least a little bit. But anyway, this was the way He wore them and it says,

And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

All right. So then, in the Spirit on the Lord's day. I just thought I'd read that little bit to you there to give you some idea of what John saw. Then it comes down to chapter two. That's chapter one. Then it comes down to chapter two, and from chapter two all the way over to chapter four. Chapter two and chapter three it is the seven church ages as to Ephesus, as to Smyrna, as to Pergamos, as to Thyatira, as to Sardis, and as to Philadelphia, and as to Laodicea. And these were the seven churches and they reached right on over. God speaks of these seven churches and it gets right on over unto the fourth chapter. And when it comes to the fourth chapter it is then that John saw a door open in heaven, which door, I told you was the door that Peter opened at Pentecost when God gave him the keys to the kingdom. And so he opened it both to the Gentiles and to the Jews. And here is the door open. Now, I could not even begin to talk to you tonight about the few things that I talk to someone about today. I couldn't begin to talk to you about these things that I talked with them about, because you wouldn't nearly have the patience just for — It didn't take that long but it took a good little while there and I could never keep your attention that long because of self discipline. But I do try to press in and get a little something over to you, at least a crumb or two, to where you can keep from starving to death spiritually. But anyway, it said that he saw this and all of a sudden he looked and he said, He that set upon the throne was like a sardine stone, like a rainbow, beautiful conglomeration of colors there. And there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald. He was to look upon like a sardine stone and he saw the four and twenty elders around there. There was lamps as to seven lamps and there was thunderings and lightnings. And my! I wish we could go into that. But anyway, he saw the four beast around the throne as to the first beast like a lion, and the second like a calf and the third as to a face of a man, and the four like a flying eagle. And they were crying Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come. We say day and night, but really it was day, because in that City there is no night. They never get tired. And it says here

The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

And then he says in the fifth chapter,

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Now, this is what I was speaking of earlier today when I said that the sixth chapter brings the opening of six of the seals and in the sixth chapter the six seal is opened, and in the seventh chapter that the projecting of this as to an expose is made and that in that chapter it is seen as to the great multitude in heaven as already in heaven that followeth the lamb whithersoever He goes and in that John looked into the earth and a hundred and forty-four thousand was sealed in the earth. And then following the seventh chapter, as in the eighth chapter, we spoke as to that which was the hail mingled with blood as to the seventh seal being opened in the eighth chapter as to thirty minutes of silence in heaven and then the four winds was loosed. And we'll explain to you why. But anyway, He that sat on the throne had the book, had the book. It was written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals. Now let me explain that again. When you say a book. You know, this Bible is a book. Now, this is the back side of it. It's sealed with seven seals, as we would say as to this natural Bible, or this book, if we put seven seals on the backside of it. But that isn't right at all, because it is not a book like that to begin with. It is a scroll. And each scroll wrapped up is sealed with a seal, and then another scroll is wrapped and it's sealed, and another scroll wrapped until the entirety of it, as to what was their book in that day, and seven seals as you finish reading, roll it up and seal it on the back. Or seal that to where it won't come open. And the practice of this in the Old Testament was that when they would buy a piece of property they would get the deeds to it. They would seal it, put it in a little tubular thing and then bury it in the ground. I'm just going to try to say a little something tonight about spiritual revelation, because I can see there is some interest tonight as we talk. I can tell that some of you kind of spruced up a little bit and made sure that you were going to get a little something. All right. So then, I can hear the Lord speaking to you, as to a few of these things tonight. Now, see? He says here in the fifth chapter,

... hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

So then, it's very evident right here that he is seeing in the fifth chapter what is projected in heaven where he is at at the moment over in the seventh chapter, and that in looking back into the earth he sees the hundred and forty-four thousand, the whole house of Israel being sealed. For as it is written out of Zion shall come forth the deliverer and He shall turn ungodliness away from Jacob, and the whole house of Israel shall be saved. Then I say that with this the blood comes off of the seat of atonement. Remember this is seen in the sixth chapter in the sixth seal. And as to the opening of the seal, and then an expose and in the seventh chapter, see? He sees the hundred and forty-four thousand sealed in the earth which is the children of Jacob. Jacob having wrestled with the angel his name was changed to Israel, which means a prince and from that twelve princes came and from them the twelve tribes, which is symbolic of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, and the twelve apostolic leaders, and that in the spiritual side of it when they stood upon thrones they will rule these twelve tribes. Each one having a tribe as it's very own to be a king over. So then, we see that this hundred and forty-four thousand at this time, when they are sealed just before the open of the seventh seal, which is the blood coming off of the seat of atonement, as in the eighth chapter. Silence in heaven for thirty minutes. Just before this occurs, they are sealed and the four angels on the four corners of the earth are holding back the four winds of earth. And it is said that they cannot touch anything in the earth as to the trees, saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Now, notice this. It said, After these things. And after these things, that is the things that he had seen in the sixth chapter, as to the heavens departing as a scroll and the Lord appearing in the heavens. After that he had seen this the sun turning black as sackcloth of hair and the stars falling from heaven, all in the sixth seal. Maybe I'd better read it.

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

(Begin tape one, side two.) In this seal is where the heavens open up and in this seal is where the Son of God appears as to the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And in this seal is where it is said that the church is already seen in heaven. And in this seal it is said that the hundred and forty-four thousand is sealed within the earth. And this is what it was said as to this.

And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

These four angels now had the power to hurt the earth and the sea by the means of these four winds. All right, now. I explained today, as we talked to some of them, I explained today some things about this as to the stars of heaven falling and what it had to do with. And my! It was so beautiful as to the things that is attached to it, so many things if we just had hours to take our time the way we take our time and talk to them and we don't have to hurry at all, you know. But anyway, here it said that they are not to hurt the earth, nor the trees, nor anything until the servants are sealed in their foreheads. Nothing can be hurt until that time. But now it says, And I heard the number of them which were sealed. Already now they are sealed before we leave the seventh chapter to get over to the eighth chapter to the opening up of the seventh seal. Everything is already sealed now as to the hundred and forty-four thousand and then the censor, that of the prayers of the saints, cast into the earth, the lightning, thundering, voices, blood and hail mingled together, all these kind of things. What does it say? It said,

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Now, see? That's in the eighth chapter when the seventh seal is opened. So then, what does that mean? Somebody said, Well, I don't know. You know, I don't know. That's because you are not paying any attention. That's because you don't have any spiritual thirst. That's because you are not hungry. If you did you'd pay attention to it like when you turn the bottle up and you have the card game, and you go frolicing and you learn all about it, see? If you have an interest. But you that have an interest, what does that mean? It simply means one thing. That if here in the seventh chapter it is said that these angels that are holding these four winds back, even tonight while we are here at Bethlehem. If these angels have now turned these winds a loose, then it said following that in the seventh seal that all of a sudden the trees that they could not hurt the earth, that they could not hurt all of these things that they could not hurt, all of a sudden they are hurting them. Which means that the angels have had to already turned the winds a loose because of that, as to say the servants are now sealed. And they only held it back until the servants were sealed. And with this the blood went off of the mercy seat in the eighth chapter as soon as those Jews were sealed. Somebody said, Well, I would love to know, Brother Pike, what about this thing, as when the blood goes off of the mercy seat? When the blood goes off of the mercy seat it is the end of the Gentile age. When the blood goes off of the mercy seat, why does it go off of the mercy seat? Now, somebody would say, Well, how do you connect it with the fact that when the blood goes off of the mercy seat that's the end of the world? Let's look at it. So then, it said, When the blood goes off of the mercy seat. That is to say, with Revelation 8, as to the seventh seal open, this is when the thing occurs. I believe that Brother Branham made the statement from what I heard, that he never could open this seventh seal, as to understand it. Whether that's true or not I don't know. And in this seventh seal is where the thunders uttered their voices and he heard them in an unknown language and could not interpret them according to what I heard. All right, now. Here it is, the seventh seal opened. What happens? All of a sudden the winds are turned a loose. And now those things that I know to be bombs, and those things that we spoke of today has to be a warfare, now then from every corner of the world, it speaks of the four corners of the world. From every corner of the world, now there is a move as to a power of conquest that some man feels that he can rule the world and he comes in to take over the people to try to rule the world. Someone would say, Well, you don't know that. The Bible said in the book of Daniel that these four winds were wrestling over the waters. And John said the waters were people. Evidently it is right in what I'm saying. So then, as to the four winds being at last turned a loose, it means that Israel had been sealed. And as quick as Israel was sealed these winds were turned a loose. So then, what are we waiting for in the day we're waiting? We are waiting for Israel to be sealed. God is now dealing with Israel and He's got to seal Israel. Remember in the sealing of Israel then it means that immediately following silence in heaven, and immediately with that following the opening of the seventh seal. Why did God do that? Why did God stop with the sixth seal and put a little breach in between that and the seventh seal as to give a thirty minutes silence in heaven? For the same reason that it follows on through as to six sounding trumpets and a little breach as to the angel with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea, hands raised to heaven, swearing by Him that liveth forever that time should be no more. See? Ten and seven, why did God do that? And then comes the last trumpet. And as it is here, then comes the last seal. And you'll find the same thing happens as with the vials. It's something with God because six belongs to man. And six brings an end of things, and then with that comes the seventh, which always brings in, that is to the millennium, and following that there's always the eighth which is circumcision, which means the removing of the veil of death, as to the intellectual thing that came from the tree of knowledge into the minds of Adam and Eve. And that always brings the new world and does away with darkness and night. So, we see here that the winds has been turned a loose when the seventh seal is opened. And when the seventh seal is opened in the eighth chapter it indicates that now the Jews have been sealed. And so then, the war has started and it's a horrible situation pointing on over to the battle of Armageddon where the blood will run to the horses' bridle, I remind you again, because the rivers have been turned to blood and the valleys overflowing with the slain, as the song that we wrote. So then, we find that in the seventh seal there is war. All of them are fighting now to get control. What is it? It is Revelation 11, 15, when the angel following after that as to the last trumpet sounds. and the Bible says, And the nations were angry. They were all angry fighting with one another, wars and rumors of wars everywhere. See? They were fighting. Conflict one with another, and now they are going to try to unite in Mr. Bush's day. How can two walk together unless they be agreed? See? Somebody would say, Well, I believe that Mr. Bush stands for a Christian America. If Mr. Bush stands for a Christian America then what's going to happen to the nations that stand for Muhammad and all the other paganistic practices of religion? Are they then going to walk together? No, not unless they be agreed. Either Mr. Bush will have to leave God and go into their paganistic practices, as to allow for all religious activities, or either they are going to have to leave their way of life and come to Christianity. And the only solution for that is one thing. And I don't mean this sacrilegious but that is Papa, as to the Pope. That's the only one that can take them all under his wings, as to the powers of Catholicism, and take every last one of them in and let them do any dirty, filthy religious thing they want to do, as to their religious practices and still accept them. Somebody would say, What do you mean, dirty, religious things? I mean like in a church when a woman got up and stripped completely and she was doing something, she said, for God as she went through her thing before the audience. Let's give the Lord a hand. That's dirty and filthy in case you don't know that. But it was a religious thing, and so it is that though we do not consider the other things dirty and religious such as that which is sacrilegious. Or that is to say, we do not consider the other things dirty when it is a dirty spirit of the devil, which Jesus called an unclean spirit when they damn and doom souls and steal the virtues and lives and understanding from the people. So then, it is an evil thing. What is she? She is a whore, and the Bible said the great whore that set upon many waters, I will burn her flesh with fire. So then, we see what He is trying to tell us. Now, the winds being turned a loose, what does that mean? It means that the hundred and forty-four thousand has been sealed. What does that mean? It means that the blood has come off of the seat of atonement. Why do you say that? Because, God, if He doesn't take the blood off of the seat of atonement He still has to give grace to those people during the tribulation that is rebellious and contrary, even as they are today, the Gentile people who refuse to go on with God. So then, that He might punish them and bring them into total darkness by the middle of the week, which is as to a bottomless pit. He must of necessity seal the hundred and forty-four thousand. And once they are sealed nothing can hurt them. And then He can take the blood off of the seat of atonement and the rest of the tribulation period can come to pass because He can pour out His wrath as to opening the bottomless pit and all of these things that will come upon the Gentiles. Whereas, the Bible speaks of the sting of these things and the torments and whatever, saying unto you and I pray always that we might be accounted worthy to escape the things that's coming on the earth. So then, these people who are not under grace, they've fallen from grace, therefore they are under the law. They never have been in the grace of God. It's coming even before the time of Calvary there, they just come right on past as the Gentiles, still doing their evil thing and have not been caught up into this heavenly place. All right. So then, I just wish we could go into that, really go into that. It's hard for me to by-pass these things and yet I cannot stop with these things because I won't get over my little thought. So, we see here that the blood is gone. If the blood is gone, then the light, as to the life of Christ, which is the grace of mankind as it is gone. And that is why that the Bible said, And their kingdom shall be filled with darkness, to the extent of an intellectual thing as to gnawing their tongues for pain and no healing medicine, because at that time of the sealing the church is seen in heaven. So then, the Jews are sealed that the earth will not be destroyed to where God can have mercy, because if not then the saints of God go out, and there is no way to spare the earth because God cannot look upon iniquity. So then, it is that when John sees the church in heaven and the hundred and forty-four thousand sealed then the light goes out and the beast's kingdom is filled with darkness because the light of the world is the church and when there is no church there is no light. Jesus said, Ye are the light of the world. Let your light so shine that men may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. All right. So then, we see that this is where it all takes place. Where? In the sixth seal. When? As I told you, the heavens rolled back like a scroll. And in the sixth seal when the heaven rolled back like a scroll it's evident that the Lord is there as to the appearing of the sign of the Son of Man and all the tribes of the earth mourn and they run for the rocks and run for the mountains and the caves to hide themselves from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne for they said, The great day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand. So then, at this time where is the church? It's in heaven, because that's what the translation is about. He shall descend, as it is said in the Bible here, Jesus will come with the voice, the trump of God, the voice of the archangel, and we will be changed and the dead shall be raise up. And I'm kind of going through this in a little hurry, because today we expounded, as I said, and took our time to detail these things. Which I can't do with you. It just ain't possible don't look like to do it. But anyway, just getting a few things here, scattered, skipping over a things, trying to bring a continuity of thought to where you, at least, can tell what I'm trying to say. So then, when the Jews are sealed then it's time for the darkness to set in. We're moving now to the middle of the week, right on over to chapter 11 where it speaks of those two prophets, and the Bible said that they will prophecy for three and a half years. It's very evident that the first part of Daniel's last week, as to the seven years, because immediately following this the Bible said that they are killed and they lay in the street. It is very obvious that this is before Revelation 12, as to the woman's travail in heaven and the child being born, because this in Revelation 12 follows Revelation 11. And in Revelation 12 it says another three and a half years. Whereas, the woman, after birthing her child, she goes into the wilderness for times, time and a half a time. So we know this is the middle of the week. There's three years over here for the prophet, three and a half years, three and a half years over here for the church. So we find that that's right in the middle of it, right there. And we could say a lot about times, time and dividing of times. But anyway, right there we see that that is the middle of the week. Three and a half years on one side, three and a half years on the other side, and now it's time for Daniel's abomination of desolation. Jesus set on the mount and told them, even in the twenty-four chapter of Matthew, they said, And tell us when the end shall be. And Jesus said, You'll here of wars and rumors of wars and all these kind of things and children rising against parents, and having them put to death and you'll be delivered up for My namesake and all of these kind of things. And there'll be earthquakes in divers places, He said, yet the end is not yet, but said, When you see the abomination of desolation, speaking to the Jewish people, then you know that that is the end. And He went on to point out that at this it would be the coming of the sign of the Son of Man. And sure enough in the sixth seal, as to the sixth chapter, it says, The Son of Man's sign appeared in heaven. And it said that the stars fell from heaven and all of these things began to take place, which has great spiritual value and spiritual significance. And even today we brought these things out? So this morning you missed a tremendous heap of things that we should be able to get into, but we can't. Even as they come to my mind, my mind is crowded about so many of them as the Spirit would like to say them, but knowing that we're limited to those things as to time and your patience and your understanding and your hungering and thirst, I just have to move on as God will allow me to say just a few little things. All right. So then, we've got this over. We know then that the hundred and forty-four thousand has been sealed. We know then that the sixth chapter is for the sixth seal and now the church is in heaven, of all nations and kindreds and tongues. We know now that the hundred and forty-four thousand having been sealed that the grace of God is gone, the silence in heaven, and now the bombs are falling. All of these things are happening. Voices and blood and hail, all of these things are beginning to take place. Now, the bottomless pit is going to be opened up at the sounding of these trumpets and men are going to be tormented by these things that come out. This is not in the latter part of the tribulation. This is at the first part of tribulation. Somebody said, Well, I think we'll go over to the middle of the week. Well, I tell you what. You don't want to go over to the middle of the week, because as to the middle of the week, by the time the woman births her child, which has to do with the natural part, as to the body and the redemption and the Jews coming in. By that time the earth has already been opened up as to a bottomless pit, and the locust has already come out and the people are already being tormented. So you don't want to go over there. Now, it is my conviction and my knowledge and my understanding that no man would marry a woman and say, Thou art My beloved bride and I'd like for you to follow Me over here. I'm going to put you in a torture chamber that will drive you out of your mind just to see how it works before we have any love affair whatsoever. So, I can't picture Christ doing that because He hath more understanding and sense than all of us put together. And we have enough sense to do that. So, you can see that something is taking place here as toward the first of the week. There is something that is taking place. Now, if the blood is off of the seat of atonement it means that the church is gone, because what the blood is, is the blood dipped vesture of the Lord Jesus Christ which went through the experience of Calvary that He picked up on the third day and set it at the right hand of the Father. And in that He left that body, came back into you and I to officiate as Aaron, the high priest, as the Holy Spirit, Christ's Spirit within this temple, because your body is still in the earth and through you. That is, you, being in Christ's stead, He might beseech the world to be reconciled unto God as to whatever measure you will allow Him to work through you in. And with that He will reward you according to your labor, as to whatever you submit to Him, as to the measure. All right. So then, we see that He left His body as an atonement. He will re-enter into that body when we've finish our little transition thing as to the change. And of course I say again, we brought these things out today, as to an explanation. When it comes to the place, as to where this is at, which I don't have time to comment on tonight, then He will leave your body, go back and pick up that body. Now, I'm just going to try to get in just a few little fragments tonight that's going to stir your understanding and cause you that are hungry and those that love the Lord to really want to know more about it, but I can't say anymore about it. I'm just saying this, remember the book that was sealed. We're getting to that part now. The book that was sealed on the backside, what is it? Jesus finished that all the way from the time of Adam and the expulsion from the garden. He finished it. He fulfilled everything that was required of man for redemption to take the body back. The dispute is over the body. To take that body back He paid every price. He come to Calvary and when He fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law He folded it up as His own body and He laid it away that we would never be under sin again. And He that knew no sin was made sin, even your sin and my sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Remember the dispute was over the body. Why? The dispute was over the body because Satan wanted to get Moses' body. He wanted that body, because that body was a great preeminence as a leader, as a power house before God, and in control of the Jews which was going to be in the control of the world and Satan knew that if he could get that body then that was what he wanted. And then when this body like unto the coming of Jesus, that when Jesus came, as to the prophet like unto Moses he tried so hard to get Jesus' body, because an angel, as to a spirit, has no part in this world as preeminence to be seen and enjoy all of these things that you enjoy unless it can have a body. So, wanting a body of kingship, knowing that Moses was made God, if he could have got in there then he could have been God to the people. And then, when it came to Jesus knowing that Jesus was the chief cornerstone of it all, then he chided with Jesus, he fought against Jesus, he wrestled with Jesus to make Him sin, at least a little bit somewhere, but Jesus said, The prince of this world cometh but he has no part in Me. And then it was that at the time he was in the wilderness that Satan actually quoted the Scripture to Jesus saying, if you will just give me your body, or that is, if you will just worship me I will give you all the things of the world because they are delivered into my hands to give to whomsoever I will. And Jesus said, Get thee hence, Satan, for as it is written, Thou shall worship the Lord thy God and Him only shall thou serve. All right. So then, we're back over to the book again. What is Calvary? Calvary is the finishing of the book, that all of the ritualistics, all of these things, that as to the keeping of ordinances and commandments and whatever, as to what Moses had imposed upon the people, these things that had been imposed upon the people, or in a continuation without alteration until the appointed time as to the seed coming. And then, when the promised seed comes, as through Isaac, or Jesus. That is, he was a type of Jesus, the promised Son. All nations shall be blessed, or that is to say, all will receive forgiveness of sin and salvation through the coming seed. Now when the seed come, to whom the promise was made and that time drew near, as to the promise drawing near, when that time drew near everybody began to be stirred, even the scholars, or whatever, and then here come the seed and they didn't even recognize Him. And He set in their midst, as to about twelve years old, and astounded the great, mighty scholars as to the wise men. And there He was, the walking, talking Word, the manifested Spirit of God, as to that Word, or Spirit being made flesh. And so then, in this we see that with the book He, Himself, had sealed it on the backside, as to saying God the great Spirit sealed it on the backside with seven seals, as to say that was the end of the Old Testament. And now the book was sealed, as to say that the scales was now still over the eyes of the people. They could not see, nor could they be made perfect without us, and that they were back under the law and they were sealed off from this and now the seven seals, as being the seven Spirits of God that was to be the church age messengers, or to bring about the church ages, as we say. Now, this was to be expose to you and I, as to Christ on the inside making an expose to you and I to give this to us secretly that the mysteries of God should be finished on the inside, as pertaining to the thunders, which means war in heaven as to the lightning and the sounding and whatever. And Satan being cast out. Which again I say had to do with Calvary and which again I say that we expounded today as to the seven seals being opened and showed how that they were in Calvary. So then, in this the war in heaven, you know you'd have to understand where heaven is and what heaven is to be able to understand what we're saying. Which again would take quite a long time. So then, we find out that we have to understand whether it's the first heaven, or whether it's the second heaven, or whether it's the third heaven, for great is the mystery of godliness. And here we see then that the seals are on the backside of the book. And now the Jews are cut off. They are no more in the presence of God, They are no more in the mind of God, because they had the law and none of them kept it. And now, because of the transgression their put out of the mind of God and God put them out of His mind so that He could blind them in part to where He could protect them. Paul said, This is the great wonderful love and wisdom of God. He concluded them in unbelief that they might not know, because where there is no knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed. I tell you again that sin reigned over the people all the way from the time of Adam's transgression down to Moses when the law came. But where there is no knowledge of sin, sin is not imputed. And then, when the law came, the law came that sin may abound. That is, that the offense might continue until the time of the reformation as to remove all of these things that was imposed upon the people at the time when this would come as to the promised seed. He would fulfill all of this. Then once it's fulfilled God doesn't need it anymore. Once every bit of it is fulfilled then He folds it up and He lays it away. And because it was accredited to the Jewish people, Jesus sealed the Jewish people in. And again, as I say, we expounded this today, how that they got sealed in and where it is again recognized and how these things come about as to the coming back in to the Jews and why they come back in. And at the same time how He took care of the Gentiles. So we can't get into all of that. But anyway, now. What was the book, as to an epistle known and read of all men? It was Jesus. And the Bible said at the judgment, And the book was open, even the book of life. And that is to say, that book of redemption. And then as to say the books were open, as to you as an epistle known and read of all men. Know ye not that the world shall be judged out of your book as to them doing to you as to Christ, or not doing unto you they did it not unto Christ, as to mocking you they mock Christ. Know ye not that your book will be opened as to your past and know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? All right. So then, we see what the Lord is telling us. I will write My laws upon the table of your heart, cause you to walk in My laws. The love of God will constrain you. So we see that this book was there. So then, what was it that the lamb of God went to get. When it was said, Weep not John, for the Lion of the tribe of Judah has travailed to open the book to loosen the seals thereof. I'm going to close in just a few minutes because there is so much to be said. All right. He said, John, don't weep, someone has travailed. And John looked to see the lion and it was a lamb, because Jesus did not bring the victory at Calvary by being a lion. He brought it as being a lamb, as to willingness to give His life and to be as the lamb that appeared to Israel on Mt. Zion, as Revelation 14. But He's going to be a lion when He comes back setting on that black horse as that strength, or that fearlessness of the lion of the tribe of Judah. He'll make the blood run to the horses bridle to come into His kingship to set upon the throne. John looked and here was a lamb with those seven eyes. And he looked and when he saw this, as to the seven eyes, the eyes of the Lord throughout the earth beholding the good and evil, showing Himself strong in the behalf of them that will believe, or that is to say the seven Spirits of God, as again to the church age messengers as those that are in the body of the Lord. They see, they understand, they project, they tutor, they are a well that's open to each generation, as to their age. Now. So then, the lamb went forth and He took the book. What was the book? It was the body of the Lord Jesus. See? When Christ leaves your body at the change then He will go back into His body, which is at the right hand of God. And this is why the terms is used, the book was in His right hand. And this book is the book of redemption, because it is the fulfillment and the record of all of the things of the Old Testament, as of the Jews, even that which they had to have when they went to redeem their land. And even as the pentecost, as to the day of jubilee, and many things that need to be said there. All right. So then, what was it that He went and got? When it was finished Jesus, He turned His back, as we (Begin tape two, side one.) say. He turned His back to where they could beat His back as to the blood running. And when the time came for the sealing, as to the book being sealed on the backside, the heavens became as dark as sackcloth of hair and God turned His back, as we would say, on Jesus. And as to that, as to the backside numbered in with the dead, and numbered in with the transgressors, and number in with sin, that all of Israel might know that He as their head was a sinner, as to their understanding, being their head. And yet He knew no sin and was made sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ. And what the law could not do it did it by being made in the form of an image of iniquity, as to God despising it and God smiting it to show the fall of Satan, because when the darkness came, as we expounded today very clearly and in a lot more detail it was the fall of Lucifer where Jesus said, I beheld him fall as lightning from heaven, and there was the thunders. But anyway, right in this we see all of that and those seals as to where those thunders uttered their voices, even one, two, three, four seals, four thunders also was at Calvary. And this was as to the thundering. I wish we had time to comment on it. But here He goes forth to get His body, as in the right hand of God, or does God have a right hand as a Spirit? Who can build a tabernacle for Me seeing that I fill heaven and all of earth. And the only body that He's ever had for Himself was the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, as to form that as a headship over all of humanity in which He severally divides Himself, as to a measure as to the operation of life in every individual that is a believer. So He went to get His body. This is what He went for and this book, this body had been folded up, sealed, laid away as the little container as to the deeds in the earth. And now the time had elapsed and now it was time to take it up out of the earth, and in doing that also as to your membership, to redeem your body, and a lot we could say there. And then on with that then it meant that He could loose the seals thereof, for no one in heaven, no one in earth, no one under the earth had ever lived the righteous life to fulfill the law. And now the book of redemption that could have never been as to these ordinances whereas it had to be to bring grace over to us, taking us out from under the keeping of all of these ordinances and these childish things bringing us to grace. Now the book was about to be opened, the seals were about to be loosed. Why? Because, as I said, from four eighty-three, as to the end of that which the angel spoke to Daniel at Calvary, and the Messiah being cut off as to the open door, as to the seven years separated from the four and ninety. And I said after this manner, because you by now should know what I'm saying. Over here at last that seven years had come in and that door of heaven was now shut. Whereas, we expounded this very clearly today as to what that meant and how that came about, the thing that we wanted to say this morning. So then, we find that the door was now shut, because four eighty-three from this last part of the seven left an open door which was heaven. John saw it open in heaven. Peter had the keys to it in recognizing the Christ beyond the veil. And the veil was rent in twain and the twain was as to four eighty-three and then as to the seven. And it was only upon the Jews that the four hundred and ninety was determined. So when the time of the Gentiles is over at the sealing of the hundred and forty-four thousand, all of a sudden the seven years comes in and joins itself to the four hundred and eighty-three. And then there is no more gap as to the church ages, which is the open door that John saw and that means that no one else can come in because there is no more grace as to on the seat of atonement as to the blood. It's not there. The door is now shut and the earthly perspective has come back in and the things that are going to be done will be done in the earthly perspective, so it means that your day as to diplomacy, it has come and now it is the lamb again. It is the body again. Now, it is the head as to the fleshly being to the fleshly Jew. For the spiritual, as to the revelational head, Jesus christ, as to Paul, as to the Christ part is already over in that it has finished it course within the heart of mankind. And now it is coming back around and when it comes back around then that means at this point, Paul said, if the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead. I wish we could comment there for sure. But, anyway, as to coming around to this, what does it mean to you and I? He has taken the book. He has picked up that body, that blood body, that bloody vesture that's called the Word of God, which means the book that He took out of the right hand. And He's coming back on the white horse in Revelation 19 to fight the battle until the blood runs up to the horses bridle, because He has now taken the book and now the earthly perspective has come back in, as to the last part, which is seven years which means now He's got to loose those seals to the Jews, even as it has been loosed to the Gentiles, as in the spiritual perspective, as to what God has revealed to us in the translation, now all of a sudden it has to be loosed to the Jews. And this is again a natural perspective and as I say, I wish we had time to go into those things but we don't. Or even as I said today when we went through the seven seals today and we brought it out as to loosening each one of those seals. And not only loosening the seals, as to give what was on the inside, but a positive proof that it was, as to where we positioned it, and it was as to what we had said, and it was very true, as to the things that transpired during this time that showed that it was exactly the way that God had said it would be at the time of the loosening of these seals. Which that doesn't mean anything to you, because I'm not saying anything to you as to what was there. But today we took them one at a time and told how that they were very, very thoroughly, explicitly set forth as to the understanding and the unveiling, in that they had been loosed, and that they were available. But nevertheless, you know, we said what little we can say to you tonight, and we've only brought you a tiny little fragment of what we said today and that in such a way until it would be hard for you to understand what we're saying. But at the same time can you take somebody that is the third grade and put them way up here in algebra teaching, or put them up here in the formulated expressions of science and have them to understand what this is all about. All right. Let's stand together. Great is the mystery of godliness. And the Bible said at the sounding of the last trump those mysteries would be finished. Just a little bit as to line upon line and percept upon percept, a little here and a little there, trying to bring to you that which we understand and it's up to you having ears, if you have ears to hear then God has given you the ears because that means you are the church. But it's so beautiful to be able to differentiate between the spirit and the body, the two different worlds as to these too different people, how far along things are, who you are, what you are, where you are and what's going to happen to you pretty directly. And to know how beautiful, how beautiful it is, for the Bible said, How beautiful even are the feet of those that bring glad tidings of great joy, that publishes peace. Indeed we are children of peace and all the paths of God are peace, and he that keepeth his mind stayed upon Christ Jesus shall have perfect peace. But to the wicked there is no peace. That's why they are having war. When they cry peace all of a sudden destruction. All right, so then, we go home tonight to sleep to wake up tomorrow as to the last day before the blood shed of the war, or whatever comes out of that meeting that they have had, as to the U.N. Let's sing together, can we? I say again, I know it being on Sunday night that you get a little bit weary and a little bit tired, but you don't know what you are missing, and you don't understand. You just don't understand what you should understand as to what God is wanting you to know. Our ambition, for as it is written, the zeal of thy house has eaten Me up. And you have so much zeal in that you are the house of God, as to the bodily temple. You as to your ego on the inside, as to your intellectual reasoning, you in your ambition, you have actually eaten up God, as to the mind of God, your zeal as for your own thing has driven Him clear out and you've made His temple, even your own mind a place of money changers, as to the devil and a den of thieves, as to covetousness of the things that Satan savors which be of the world, as to the love of the world in you the love of the Father is not there. And so then, in thy zeal ye have eaten Me up. As it written, He said to the Jews, the zeal of thine house has eaten Me up. Going about to establish your own righteousness you stumble at the righteousness which is by God. And of course the Gentiles are no different, going about to establish their own righteousness as to their conviction as to what they think that Christ has said and what it is all about then they have literally driven Him out. And they've got ball games and parties and frolics and everything else and they say there is nothing wrong with it. Having seared their conscience with a hot iron they've got passed feeling and they do what they want to, in that they have made faith ship wreck. And as in the book of Solomon the Lord has seen out into the night, as to push out in their intellectual darkness and He's knocking on the heart's door. And the Bible said, the drops of the night are in his locks and he's desiring to come in, as to saying, whosoever will open unto Me I will come in at supper time. I will sup with Him. So, folks, it's getting close to supper time. This is supper time. We sing the song supper time. All right. Let's sing together, can we? (Sings Supper Time.) It's late. It's getting near supper time. As the writer said, It's time to come home. It's supper time. That's why you see so many coming in. I made the statement, I said, And the youth will start coming back in and I said, as to this coming thing a number of years ago, it will effect the heavens and the earth, and there will be a new way of life and a new order, and you have moved into it unawares. Today the styling of the cars is new. Today the styling of the clothing is new. Today your activities are new. You are giving an account as to a computerized system and if you are not Johnny on the spot, as it's said in the world, then you lose your credit rating and it is different today. We've moved into an age to where they don't marry anymore, they just live together like animals. And as to the foreign designs has come in and you've moved into an age to where now there is a new world order as they say. And things have happened in the heavens and things have happened in the earth. And even in the last few days where they say now, We've discovered heaven and they show the picture of this great beautiful city where they can faintly see it that's in the milky way. And now they say they know there is a heaven and as we were saying the other day, having heard those sounds come forth out of the earth, we brought you a little bit about that. They say they know there is a hell now, because they could hear the screaming in the earth. Whatever it might be, scientists have intellectually defined it as to being a belief, whereas it is true that when Pharoah finally went in to try to cross the Red Sea it was too late. Grace was gone, as we would say, and it become his entombment. So then, things are happening. There's a new world. There's a new way of life and many things that we could point out to you, but the thing is, the harvest has come, the summer is gone. Now, some of you are not saved yet. Jesus said, Work while it is day for soon the night cometh when no man can work, which means that when the light of the mind of Christ, as to the light of the world, the grace of God is gone, the intellectual constraint of the old tree of knowledge of the people that rule here in the world, as to Satan and his intellectual concept of godliness. It will be gross darkness to cover the people and they will gnaw their tongues for pain. Let's sing again, can we? (Sings Supper Time and Standing Somewhere In The Shadows.) Sing that with me. (Continues singing.) Sing that with me, now. (Continues singing.) While we're sing these little choruses together, though you might be a little bit tired we invite you to come down to the altar. Paul said, I'm persuaded to believe that which I've committed unto the Lord that He is able to keep it against that great day. Whereas, they said, And the great day of His wrath has come. If you've never made the commitment now is the time to make the commitment. He is faithful who promised. He said, I will come, and He will come. He will come. So we'll sing this little chorus and give you a chance to come down. Let's sing the little chorus, There Is Room At The Cross For You. (Leads in singing and sings At The Cross.) While we're singing why don't we all come down to the alter? And the Bible said, Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord and knowing the time is near and even tomorrow the declaration of war may take place, let's all come down to the alter. Let's all check our hearts, condition our hearts. The Bible said examine yourselves and see if you be in the believing of the Word, as to having Him for your master, or if you are in the faith. Do you have a conviction in believing in what He says. If so then come down to the alter and let's just worship God together. Can all of you come down? All right. One more time. (Sings At The Cross.) Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings After All and I Don't Need No Gold Or Silver.) Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings Let Tomorrow Be Tomorrow.) Help me, Frank. (Continues singing.) Can you sing it one more time with me? (Continues singing.) Can we lift our hands together, close our eyes and another week-end is gone and another day is finished. And with God there is no certain day, to worship Him seven days through is to love Him. We've come to the time where those things that we imposed upon the people are no more, as to types and shadows and Paul said, Days and times and seasons. I'm afraid of you, because you esteem one day above another. But he said that we should love the Lord with all our heart every day. Every day. All of our strength, and we should serve the Lord all the time. So let's do that. Let's love the Lord. Let's condition our heart. If you've never given your heart to God then let's give our heart to God tonight. Will you? The Bible said it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Have you called upon the name of the Lord? With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and confession unto salvation is made with the lips. Will you therefore believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, as I've preached and then make a confession from your heart? Heavenly Father, I believe. I believe in Your lovely Son Jesus, and I believe that You've taken away my sins. And Heavenly Father. I call upon Your name tonight. Forgive me, O Lord, of my sins and let Your lovely Spirit come into my heart, for O God, I love You and I want to serve You. I feel the Holy Ghost falling on you right now as we talk. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I feel the wonderful loving Holy Ghost as the precious Holy Spirit falls upon you as your hearts go out to God.....(Begin tape two, side two.)....felt the faith of these men over here as their spirit went out to God and you need to let your spirit go out and you need to turn a loose your spirit to God and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and call on His name so that you can have salvation. You need to do it. Just as I felt the spirit among the men I need to feel it among you too. Hallelujah! We're going to pray just a little together and then we're going to sing another chorus. Father, Lord of heaven, we lift up holy hands, made holy by Your Son Jesus. And dear wonderful God, we with our own lips, we communicate with You and we call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for Father, You said it would come to pass that whosoever would call upon the name of the Lord that they would be saved. And seeing the war, Father, and seeing these things happen, know that the rapture could take place any time, Father, for we know that it will not go over to the boycotting of Israel and it's near as to the boycotting, but Father, around the first part, Lord, of Daniel's last week, O God, we know that You will seal the Jews and with that the church will be gone. And Father, we know that at any time something could happen, So, Heavenly Father, we pray that our heart will be in Thee, O God, as we call upon Thy name that You may save us. And Lord, that You may give salvation to us and to them that are around the world. We ask it in Jesus lovely name. Hallelujah! The writer said, I'm going back to the chapel there in search of His hands. Why I ever strayed from Him I don't understand. I'm going back to the chapel in search of His hand, those hands that were so tender that healed the sick and blind, those hands that were so tender, and to me were so very kind. Why I ever strayed from His presence I just can't understand. I'm going back to the chapel there in search of His hands. Now, let's sing together tonight to worship the Lord. The Bible said to pray for one another. Confess your faults to one another that you may be healed. It's when you come together, to confess you faults one to another, that then your conscience is clear and faith comes and then are you healed. So then, we're going to sing another little chorus together, Brother Taylor. The writer said, Down from His glory to bring the everlasting story. Then Brother Taylor sings the song, He hath rent the veil in two. Let kings and queens bow down before Him, as the song that we wrote. Can we sing this little chorus? Give me another key, Frank. Another key. Let's sing this together if we can find the right key here. (Sings The Old Country Church.) Sing it with me. (Continues singing.) Let's just bow our heads together and lift our hands. Let's sing the little chorus we sing so often. ( Sings I will praise Him.) Once again. (Continues singing.) I want Brother Richard, the Jew, to come up and dismiss us if he will. (Continues singing.) Once more. (Continues singing).

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord